Questions

The Road continues, and it keeps bringing up something which I can’t stop thinking of. What I’m thinking about is all the questions the son has and asks to his father. All their dialogues are basically the son asking and the father answering.

“The boy lifted the gun from the case and held it. Can you shoot somebody with
it? he said.
You could.
Would it kill them?
No. But it might set them on fire.
Is that why you got it?
Yes.
Because there's nobody to signal to. Is there?
No.
I'd like to see it.
You mean shoot it?
Yes.
We can shoot it.
For real?
Sure.
In the dark?
Yes. In the dark.”

Here we see a perfect example of the question and answer routine the man and son have almost in every conversation. It is as though the father’s only goal to fulfill is to answer every question to his son, so that he will now everything necessary to survive when he is gone. It’s like if he was giving the boy a class, a lesson of how to survive, and the boy will naturally have questions about this.